LECTURES CONCERNING ORATORY. Delivered in TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, BY JOHN LAWSON, D. D. LECTURER in ORATORY and HISTORY, on the Foundation Videmus quid deceat, non affequimur. CICERO de Orat. THE THIRD EDITION. DUBLIN: M DCC LX. CB 34 X26 TO THE Moft Reverend, the Right Hon. MY LORDS, T HE Wisdom of our Ancestors thought fit to establish Profeffors, and injoin publick Lectures to be delivered in all Seats of Learning, as Means highly conducive to the right Instruction of Youth: The End which they were deemed to anfwer, obtained Place in all Countries, and have been held in general Efteem almost down to the present Times. But in late Days, at least among us, a Dislike of this Inftitution hath been infenfibly growing up, and feemeth now pretty widely to prevail: It being in the Nature of Mankind to become tired of old Cuftoms, and feek after new Inven A tions |